57 Stories To Learn About Decentralized

by Learn RepoOctober 11th, 2023

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Learn everything you need to know about Decentralized via these 57 free HackerNoon stories.

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Let's learn about Decentralized via these 57 free stories. They are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon. Visit the /Learn Repo to find the most read stories about any technology.

1. Is DeSci the Future of Research?

The DeSci movement advocates for real decentralization, rejecting institutional influence, and supporting citizen research in the quest for truth.

2. Writing Decentralized Applications in JavaScript - Libp2p Basics

Libp2p is the base of the Interplanetary Filesystem and it will be the base of Ethereum 2.0.

3. My First Impressions on BitClout

I have been following alternative social networks for a while, infact I made a list. While I was browsing Twitter, I stumbled upon a newly emerging social network called BitClout. I decided to create a profile, and for those curious my handle is AMKN. You can actually follow my posts here. That said, I have some initial thoughts.

4. Hot Business Models: Revenue in the Gaming Industry

No longer an arcade machine you’d drop some pennies in, video-game revenue models have evolved.

5. What is a Dapp? And What it Most Definitely is Not.

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6. Web 3.0 and the Metaverse Walk Into a Bar...

Do they have anything to do with all of this intergalactic hype around blockchain and decentralization?

7. Why are Decentralized Messengers Better than Centralized Messengers?

We are using centralized applications and losing our privacy. If you care about privacy and web3, try to consider switching to decentralized messengers.

8. The Main Challenges of Decentralization

Decentralization stands in opposition to centralization and is currently rapidly breaking into the world order of the modern world.

9. Using Blockchain to Replace Commonly used Internet Services

Tired of depending on centralized HTTP services, we found Ethereum can do the same but much more efficiently.

10. What Makes Facebook’s Libra More Centralized?

11. VPNs are No More Sufficient to Protect Your Privacy on the Web

As criminals and central entities spoil our internet experience, people search for solutions to bypass the hurdles and enjoy the internet with ultimate freedom.

12. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t: Censorship, Decentralized Networks and Moderation

The current landscape has given newfound attention to the concept of deplatforming and led many to wonder what the right solution is.

13. The Simple Rationality of Token Bonding Curves

Via using mathematical functions, assets can have a reduction in volatility along with a more forward price guidance. Token Bonding Curves are exactly that.

14. Decentralizing Software Ownership with Blockchain

Blockchain Startup building a decentralized code repository for community-owned software products and self-governing organizations

15. How We Built a Smart Inventory on a Blockchain

Smart Inventory is a decentralized application that tracks the history and life path of valuable items.

16. The Economy of Ethereum: A Simple Explanation for Beginners

A simple view at Ethereum blocksize limit and its gas fee structure in regard to being a world decentralized computer that power the new internet application.

17. 10 DeFi marketing agencies to follow: who can you trust to promote your financial protocol

The decentralized finance (DeFi) has so far been one of the best-performing arts of the entire cryptocurrency industry. Its growth has powered several projects into the billion-dollar status, and it almost seems like the only place for it to go is up.

18. True Meaning Of DAOs — Understanding A New, Emerging Phenomenon

DAOs set out to replace organizations as we know them today with an approach of openness and decentralization. But what are DAOs really?

19. Contests and Hackathons in Blockchain: An Overview

Free TON, Solana, Near, Cosmos - we compare contests and prizes and choose the most “generous” and favorable ecosystem for users and developers.

20. #ForTheLastTime Blockchain is More Than Just Crypto

In this story, we will explain the true potential of blockchain and why it's a lot more interesting to use this technology outside of cryptocurrency.

21. Why YouTube’s biggest competition will come from decentralized video platforms

YouTube creators and users are fleeing to decentralized, blockchain-based platforms, which offer greater choice and less exploitation.

22. 10 Shared Beliefs of a Bitcoin Maximalist

While some maximalists assert that altcoins are just unregistered securities, most consider them technically and morally questionable, if not outright scams.

23. Overview of the Innovative Features Brought to Financial Markets by Level01

It has become common knowledge that blockchain has immense disruptive power that allows it to push a multifaceted narrative that seems to encapsulate the entirety of the global market, especially the financial markets. While this is a given, very few startups have successfully implemented blockchain solutions targeted at a large demographic and are poised to take on a financial sector that is traditionally known to thrive on intermediate services.

24. As The Bitcoin Blockchain Becomes More Centralized, We Need To Look At zk-SNARKS

During the creation of the Bitcoin blockchain, Satoshi Nakamoto may don't have the proper technology/resources or vision that's why he created a blockchain that grows with every transaction and now it is 285.06 gigabytes!

25. Stablecoin Models: Evaluating Centralized Vs. Decentralized Architectures

Stablecoin adoption has exploded over the last year, seeing a collective market cap rise from around $10 billion to over $100 billion. This was at least partly amplified by yield generating opportunities from the DeFi market boom and a growing interest in digital assets, providing the tokenized and frictionless benefits of moving between crypto and fiat over permissionless blockchains.

26. Understand Bitcoin in just 835 Words

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27. Zora: What It Is and Why It's Essential for NFT Creators

Zora is a universal media registry protocol on Ethereum. This protocol makes it easy to buy, create, or sell NFTs in a decentralized and permissionless fashion.

28. Providing Decentralized Insurance Services Worldwide with Hybrid Smart Contracts

In this piece, the CTO of Etherisc discusses the central role that hybrid smart contracts and oracles play in enabling parametric insurance products on-chain

29. Decentralized Learning: Debunking Myths About Education

Blockchain will help revolutionize the education system. The concept of "Ongoing Learning Journeys" will change the way have been seeing learning and education.

30. Build a DAO in Minutes with Zora's New Nouns Builder🧱

Nouns Builder is a new Zora tool that can help you form a DAO in minutes and then sustain it over time through Nouns DAO-like auctions.

31. Improving the Cultural Value of NFTs With TCRs 🪙

JPG just launched a token-curated registry (TCR) system that’s on track to become the first community-sourced public good of its kind.

32. Streaming just got weird. Can blockchain fix it?

Tracking royalties and other IP rights across the growing cohort of streaming platforms can be very tedious. While blockchain can’t be one cure-all fix, it can still deliver feasible benefits to production, publishing and distribution of creative assets.

33. Blockchain-Based On-Chain Solutions: An Overview

With more than a decade having past since the creation of Bitcoin, blockchains have come a long way. There is no doubt that the Bitcoin blockchain has its specific uses, and as developers figured out what else blockchains could be used for new types of chains had to be created.

34. A Post Pandemic Environment Will Be Ripe for The Adoption of Decentralized Stablecoins

The global crisis is causing an explosive increase in demand for stablecoins. Some even say that it's stablecoins that will drive the mass adoption of crypto, not hypervolatile coins like Bitcoin. It's time to ask the question: which stablecoins will benefit more from the recession – regular ones, such as USDT, or decentralized ones, like DAI and others?

35. Blockchain Innovation to Revive the Tourism Industry in the Post-pandemic World

The coronavirus pandemic affected most global industries and, probably, the tourism industry the most. One of the biggest hit was taken by airlines, with an estimate of 44% fall below 2019’s revenue Actually, in the US, “The impact on travel is six or seven times greater than the 9/11 attacks,” according to Roger Dow, president and CEO of the US Travel Association. Stepping into the post-pandemic days, the world is desperate for solutions that could revive the tourism industry.

36. Cryptographic Magic in Decentralized Storage

On Web2 or the traditional web, storage systems were designed to suit fast-growing, collaborative environments. These storage systems boasted different degrees of data availability and data security and protection from loss. As Web2 grew in adoption so did the generation of Web2 data volume and density in many formats. This data could be large files, non-transactional, often created by a single user, and may be shared over some geographical distance. This design led to the reliance on central authorities to store the world's data.

37. Middleware Is Where The Next Tens of Billions Market Is In The Polkadot Ecosystem

Polkadot is a highly scalable project that can accommodate a large number of ecological niches.

38. Should Online Platforms Have Unions?

In October 2019, two DoorDash drivers — Dave Levy and Nikos Kanelopoulos — launched the #DeclineNow Facebook group.

39. Examining Decentralized Exchange Token Sales

Decentralized exchanges are truly having their year in crypto. We are starting to see more decentralization for capital raises facilitated by trustless, non-custodial platforms.

40. How To Decentralize Virtual Communities?

The widespread use of social media has changed the way we communicate, however, not everyone thinks these changes are positive. For example, the lack of strict moderation of social media content has contributed to the spread of misinformation during the COVID-19 outbreak.Even before COVID-19, many users were unsatisfied of how social media platforms were addressing disinformation, censorship, privacy, political neutrality, user control, and malicious activity. Decentralized social networks and communities are more flexible than centralized ones, but they provide more opportunities for the disadvantages that are suppressed in centralized communities. This is the small paradox of decentralized communities.